Cortex

00:00:00 ◼   ► hello Mike hi gray I feel like last show [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► we really clarified something mm-hmm you [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► know what's about to begin [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► season two of cortex we did our clip [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► show stroke [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► looking back on cortex last time and we [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► talked about a bunch of things and one [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► of them was talking about this idea that [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► we you and I are sort of meeting for [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► lunch and we're discussing our working [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► lives and talking things through and how [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► for both of us this is a beneficial [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► process [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► it's like talking about the thing that [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► you're doing helps you do things better [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► even if you're not explicitly talking [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► about how to make your working life [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► better and this is one of these things [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► like I find I have this kind of [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► conversation with lots of people in my [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► life and I feel like this is a learned [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► kind of skill but it's it's something [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► that almost sounds so banal that people [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► don't recognize it as a skill the little [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► just thinking in the background about [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► how you work and running it over every [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► once in a while and thinking about how [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► things go and there was a there was a [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► particular comment from the reddit that [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► I really liked that I felt like summed [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► this up and also pointed out the learned [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► nature of this skill and it was a [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► comment from logic 42 who said the thing [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► I've learned from cortex is [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► introspection before cortex I just did [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► things I didn't think about the process [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► of getting things done by simply [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► considering the meta problem I began to [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► see ways to improve and I feel like I [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► feel like that's what we're doing here [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► Mike you and I were engaged in the meta [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► process and hopefully we're bringing [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► listeners along with us on this ride [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► and from this comment and the reddit I [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► feel like it is evidenced that we are [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► accomplishing this thing so you [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► mentioned you mention it last time [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► mention at this time the idea of of me [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► and you just basically having our [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► lunches but we've Skype in the middle [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► whoo [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► you know where we just sit down and talk [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► about the way that we work and that has [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► been rattling around in my brain quite a [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► lot and I'm thinking about trying to [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► find ways to incorporate that that kind [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► of process into the show even more than [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► before [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► mm-hm and one of the reasons is not [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► everybody in their lives has this person [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► that they're able to talk to so then we [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► actually help fulfill that for a lot of [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► people I think right like as as is [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► pointed out by logic 42 it's just [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► sometimes you're just hearing these [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► conversations helps people yeah that [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► that's what that's a real that's a real [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► I don't know I don't know how to explain [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► it very well but like I'm not a big [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► believer in like the abstract notion of [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► like like the self-help section of a [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► bookstore right which i think is mostly [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► garbage and fraud are' and you say what [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► you really think [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► luxe tourism right but but I think there [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► is like I have found in my own life [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► there was there was real value to [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► hearing people explaining their thought [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► process about why they do a thing and [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► I'm aware of like when I listen to [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► podcasts that is something I am always [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► really interested in it's like oh I want [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► to hear somebody explain their reasons [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► for doing a thing even if it's like oh [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► you have no interest in doing that thing [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► or you have no interest in that person [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► directly like if there's I think there [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► is benefit to being just like exposed to [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► this person who's just explaining [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► something and I have found that there is [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► advantage in hearing someone just like [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► talk through their working process which [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► then just ends up making me think about [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► the way that I do things and the other [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► for the other thing that I have I have [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► found is is like it is a Taysom what [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► rarer skill then I might have first [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► imagined in the world like it was a [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► thing I was really aware of in [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► I working life that I found a lot of my [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► colleagues just didn't fall into that [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► category of like doing doing that meta [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► problem analysis like thinking about why [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► things happen as opposed to giving an [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► answer like oh we just always do things [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► that's why you're like you're just [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► sticking with the the first way that a [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► thing is being done so that's why I find [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► it useful to talk to somebody else like [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► yourself and I think that it is it is [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► useful to listen to other people doing [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► the same thing even if you're not a part [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► of that conversation because that's [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► something that I have been doing for [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► years myself with podcasts about a year [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► ago I read this article motherboard [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► about professional wrestling podcasts [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► and the idea is that and the headline [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► says it all really podcasts are group [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► therapy sessions for pro wrestling fans [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► with the idea being that most people [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► that like professional wrestling tend [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► not to have somebody else in their life [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► that also likes it right right so [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► professional wrestling podcasts are so [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► popular and they are massively popular [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► because these people don't get to talk [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► to anybody else about it so they get to [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► listen to the podcasts that other people [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► make about this stuff ooh and I expect [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► that there is a kind of weird similarity [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► between those shows on this show and [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► that I don't know how many people that [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► listen to the show really have somebody [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► else in their life that they can talk to [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► about their to do system right all right [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► but if people get that enjoyment out of [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► listening to me and you chat about them [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► we have to think we have this very [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► similar thing with the pen addict as [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► well mm-hmm you know how many people do [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► you know in your life that really love [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► pens like a very very deep level well [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► any and Brad do you know you know it's a [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► similar kind of thing yeah it is that's [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► definitely the case and like I know [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► sometimes when we recording the show I [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► have a real feeling of I know that a [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► much younger version of myself would [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► listen to this show right like I'm aware [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► of that as a thing that I feel like [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► particularly with the boom of podcast [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► like in the last five years [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► I feel like this this was not a thing [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► that was around particularly like when I [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► was a kid was being able to hear people [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► just kind of like talk through a bunch [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► of stuff and I know like that is [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► definitely something I would have [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► listened to when I was younger and and [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► so that's that's like that's what's [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► happening here like we've because I feel [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► like sometimes when people describe like [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► what that what the show is sometimes [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► said like oh it's a Productivity show [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► and even right from the start I've [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► always felt like that that is never it's [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► never quite sat [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► or for what this show is but I've never [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► been able to figure out a better a [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► better way to describe it quickly and [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► and we still may not have a good way to [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► describe the show quickly but I think [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► something about this idea of like this [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► open lunch conversation that is around [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► the topic of our working lives like that [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► that is a more accurate description of [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► what the show is and it's really it's [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► really like gelled something in my mind [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► about what we're doing here and it only [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► took 50 episodes to work it out so [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► that's pretty good yeah like yeah that's [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► the thing like hey listen if you're out [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► there and you're starting a podcast let [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► this be a lesson to you you may go for [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► quite a while before you feel like oh I [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► really know what I'm doing here this [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► episode of cortex is brought to you by [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► our friends over fresh books we spend so [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► much time on this show talking about [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► what it's like to work independently [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► this can be a freelancer where we run [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► your own company it doesn't matter what [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► it is you're going to have people that [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► you need to send invoices to and it's [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► what fresh books does to make your life [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► easier fresh books understand the [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► challenges of people that work [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► independently and also understand now [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► that people work on the Internet [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► the Internet has created opportunities [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► and jobs that could have never existed [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► before and so fresh works have designed [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► their platform to work that way they [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► want to make you productive and [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► organized while also letting you get [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► paid quickly you can jump into fresh [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► books and have an invoice sent out in [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► just 30 seconds you build them all in a [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► great interface and you'll see those [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► invoices exactly how your client will [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► when they arrive in their inbox and when [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► they do you'll be able to track every [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► step you'll be able to see when it's [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► opened you can even see if it's been [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► printed [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► and then you'll see when it gets paid [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► and FreshBooks customers get paid up to [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► four days faster than anybody else [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► because they allow you to set up online [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► payments so so simply I have been using [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► fresh books since we started real AFM we [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► have sent over a thousand invoices of [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► them now and I am happy every single [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► time I do it fresh books makes this job [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► so much easier [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► I really really love and cannot [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► recommend enough their product fresh [TS]

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00:09:21 ◼   ► just go to fresh books calm / cortex and [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► enter cortex into how you heard about a [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► section so they will know that you came [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► to them from this show thank you so much [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► for pressure books for their support of [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► cortex and real AFM why don't we talk [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► about productivity a little bit just the [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► idea of that phrase and what it means [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► mm-hmm [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► because in the same way that people [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► refer to this shows being a Productivity [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► show I think it's it's it was useful for [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► me and you to try and explain what we [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► actually think that term even really [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► means and how it applies to us because [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► productivity I think is very frequently [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► mixed up with the term of being a [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► workaholic mm-hmm and I don't think that [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► that that works very well I've never [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► considered myself a workaholic because I [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► actually don't know if that is being [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► productive [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► you know like the idea of getting in to [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► the office a a.m. and leaving at 7:00 [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► because you're just so busy mmm that [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► never sat with me for me it was always [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► about like how can I get out of here at [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► 5:00 and that was the part that was me [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► being productive who's like I need to [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► get out of this office as close to five [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► o'clock as possible how do I get from [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► here at 9:00 a.m. to there at 5:00 that [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► more activity for me yeah that was that [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► was my exact same thing when I was being [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► a teacher what was that like when the [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► when the kids go home I want to be going [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► home in like 20 minutes after that [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► happens [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► sprint and it's like I really I really [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► do like their there are some there are [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► some elements of my personality which [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► obviously like you just you just have [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► like they've just been with me for [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► forever but I think that that part of [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► being in the working world really honed [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► for me like an informed a particular [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► idea of of like how I think about a lot [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► of things related to work it's like what [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► I'm looking for here is maximum [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► effectiveness in minimum amount of time [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► toward a goal and the goal is to go home [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► right as fast as possible yep and yeah [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► like spent so much time thinking about [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► all of these various ways to save [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► seconds on a thing right the like that [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► would add up overall weight well that's [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► this very different question from like [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► raw output I think I don't know if I've [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► mentioned it before but one of my [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► favorite examples of trying to save time [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► was like thinking about the meta thing [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► is my least favorite part of the job was [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► writing reports for the kids which is [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► the whole like long complicated thing [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► and there's there was so many things I [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► did to try to streamline this process [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► but the best bang for the buck ever was [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► I had to sign every one of these [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► profiles for the kids and I thought one [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► day pull anybody notice and or care if [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► when I print them off of the printer I [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► just put my signature directly on there [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► so it's just printed off the pot a [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► template yeah on a template and I played [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► around with it a little bit so that the [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► the signature printing ink looked as [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► real as I could make a signature look by [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► also lightening the whole rest of the [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► document so it looks like I'm signing [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► with a slightly darker pen that it's [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► being printed right it's like yeah you [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► laughs right but it matters because what [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► am I doing here like I'm trying to see [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► if anyone will care about this thing [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► which doesn't make any difference right [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► like is the profile any better if I [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► personally sign it no because I've been [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► working like I'm working on this thing [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► anyway and that what that was the thing [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► I did and his like man I don't know how [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► many hours of time that saved me but the [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► answer was [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► lot where like things would come back [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► like oh you haven't signed this or I [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► don't have to sit down and do it that to [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► me is like a pure example of a [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► Productivity win it's like doesn't [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► affect the output at all and decreases [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► the amount that I have to do to actually [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► get this thing done so when I was [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► managing a bank branch I had to sign [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► probably more things than you write [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► because I'm gonna guess I don't know if [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► you know but basically the but the [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► branch manager basically puts their [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► signature on everything right your a [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► signature machine isn't yet they've [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► actually hired so I changed my signature [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah so I just made it this like [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► little squiggle as opposed to anything [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► that would even slightly resemble my [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► name because I was unhappy with the [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► amount of time that it would take for me [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► to sign everything your kids that is [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► productivity right there yeah that is [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► what we think for activity is and you [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► will not be surprised to hear that I did [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► the exact same thing upon becoming a [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► teacher very very quickly realized that [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► writing out GRE why in a legible way is [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► not worth my time septa ball yeah and my [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► signature became a recognizable G with a [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► line that dipped briefly to like vaguely [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► indicate that maybe there's a why here [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► and then continued onward and it's like [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► yep that's it good enough it's [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► identifiable enough when we need to go [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► through the paperwork so we know who [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► signed what but it's like the minimum [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► amount of time I can possibly take is [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► like I'm not Precious about my signature [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► like the hell with you do you have a [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► different signature when you sign [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► autographs uh you might not well answer [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► that question I don't know [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► well the okay so the tricky thing with [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► the autographs is I feel I feel [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► compelled to include my initials when I [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► do the autograph yeah yeah right so it [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► it takes long but the the the gray is [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► very similar to my teacher signature is [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► perhaps a little less stylized because I [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► feel I feel like there's there's there's [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► a moment of there's a moment of [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► importance like when someone has asked [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► you to sign a thing like that's a moment [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► think about a time on that [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► yeah and it's it's it's like a it's also [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► like a strange amount of pressure and so [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► well I just I just pay more attention [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► right where's what I had to sign stuff [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► professionally it's like yeah whatever [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► like you just need an indication the [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► this piece of paper it doesn't need to [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► actually look good because I feel like [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► signing a thing is a slightly different [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► domain area that it has to this look [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► better so me and you talking about work [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► is not necessarily the same as talking [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► about productivity and it's one of the [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► reasons that every now and then we talk [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► about video games because the [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► productivity enables the video games [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► right yeah it's the whole thing it's the [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► whole piece yeah it's it's like just [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► like just like you were saying that you [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► want to get at five I wanted to leave as [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► soon after the children leave as [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► possible it's like the thing the thing [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► that has carried through from that is is [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► this idea that the work is in service of [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► some other goal and my feeling has [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► always been like the goal that I am [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► aiming for is to build a life that I [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► want to live and a life that I want to [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► live is is not the same thing as [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► producing the maximum number of videos [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► that is possible like these things are [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► in these things are in conflict it's [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► like I want to make videos but I feel [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► like all of all of my thoughts around [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► work and gradations and the tools we [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► talked about and everything we've ever [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► done is is a question about effectively [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► making videos in a sustainable way in [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► the long term and and that's not the [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► same thing necessarily as being [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► productive in the way that you talk [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► about like an economy is productive [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► which means like every year the amount [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► of copper forged goes up like that's a [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► that's a very different way I do think [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► it's interesting that people sometimes [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► conflate these things and I feel like [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► it's it's an interesting thing that is [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► sometimes hard hard to can convey is [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► this is this idea of like yes I'm very [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► concerned with the effectiveness of work [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► but that question is not necessarily [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► related to the volume of work when you [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► see me talking about video games [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► you can feel very assured that I have [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► been productive right and I feel like [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► that statement it could be could be [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► written with either our names underneath [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► it because it's like if I am able to do [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► this it means I've taken care of the [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► rest [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► mmm and and it is like that the [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► productivity the idea of getting the [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► work done what that is like it is in [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► service of that [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► mm-hm and it's the that's what year of [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► less was mmm and it's what you know I [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► I'm six months into my year of less and [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► haven't really paid much attention to it [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► I was gonna ask about how that was going [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► but I am again it popped up in my head [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► the other day because I realized that I [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► have a much smaller appetite for being a [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► part of new projects hmm like relay FM [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► can be and is but my involvement my like [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► day-to-day direct involvement ie as a [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► host who that appetite is going down [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► over time so you're talking about your [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► desire to do new shows yes mm-hmm [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► my problem is my appetite for new ideas [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► can never be filled and so I have been [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► paying attention to this and doing a [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► couple of different things one is I'm [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► trying my best to not start new things [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► mm-hmm right they're like things pop up [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► in my head opportunities come my way and [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► I think about them a lot more deeply [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► than I would have in the past like and [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► if something doesn't feel like a [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► complete no-brainer then I I spend more [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► time thinking about it like I have spent [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► too much time in my career over the last [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► seven years of allowing myself to [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► completely taken by a whim Lu and some [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► of those things have turned out to be [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► great and some of them haven't been and [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► I need to do a better job and I am doing [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► a better job of trying to quantify these [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► decisions of a scale that is better than [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► just excitement level mm-hmm [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► because what I am trying to avoid is an [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► inevitable burnout yeah and then a [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► slashing of projects because I enjoy all [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► of my current projects that's why I do [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► them but if I add much more on top of [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► that that's going to be a problem so one [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► of the other things that I've done to [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► prepare myself for this is what I've [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► been speaking about for months is that [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► getting help [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► hmm you know having an assistant now who [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► helps me has been a great way to help [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► with this because what I'm doing is [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► staving off the Burnell with my current [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► project level right that's what I've [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► done I've secured that so all the stuff [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► that I'm currently doing I now feel less [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► pressure than I did maybe three or four [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► months ago about my current workload [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► this is exactly the thing that I was [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► going through last year with year of [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► less right like is is this exact thing a [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► feeling like needing to have more [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► specific reasons to pick up a side [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► project for example right or needing to [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► be able to to take parts of the job and [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► try to hand them to somebody else like [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► in I want to say before about this idea [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► like trying to build a life that you [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► want to live like I find it I find it [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► really effective when thinking about my [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► working life and this has always been [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► the case right from the start is the [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► most effective thing is to try to [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► eliminate or reduce the thing that you [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► dislike as opposed to what is often the [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► more compelling part which is to add a [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► new more exciting thing right and and I [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► and I have found that that that is [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► definitely held true for me that's like [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► time is better invested [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► recognising and eliminating or [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► outsourcing parts of the business that I [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► don't like or that are causing me stress [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► like that that is way better for [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► building a life that I want to live then [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► adding a new thing that I'm super [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► excited about like I think excitement is [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► almost against it's good it's good to [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► have about a project but I think at a [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► certain point when you you have a bunch [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► of things that are successful it can [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► quickly become a kind of I don't know [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► like a red herring that you're always [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► chasing is like excitement alone at a [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► certain point does not become enough to [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► justify working on a thing when you're [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► already working on a whole bunch of [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► things like you have to start thinking [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► about stuff in a in a much more ruthless [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► way I actually have a related I'll score [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► text question so jason wrote in about [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► side projects to say do they get really [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► bored or distracted and find themselves [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► moving on to something new [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► very constantly before finishing current [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► projects leaving behind like a trail of [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► unfinished things mm-hm [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► so Jason asks do you have any tips for [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► getting over the slump that comes after [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► the initial excitement now the reason I [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► find these two things to be connected is [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► in just what you were saying right [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► like that it's way too easy to be [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► attracted by that bright light that new [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► shiny thing and go to it this is [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► something that I have been doing over [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► the last six months or so you wanted one [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► of the things that I've been thinking [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► about with my balance is to find [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► excitement in existing projects so to [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► like manufacture for myself new things [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► to do and to find things within those [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► projects to make exciting to find new [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► experiences or new ways of thinking [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► about something that I'm currently doing [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► or shaking something up like I have been [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► a real proponent of the stuff that I've [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► done in my podcasting career [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► of rebranding shows and repackaging [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► shows if I have gotten tired of a show [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► format to like shake it up give it a new [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► name give it a new coat of paint and [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► give myself the ability to kind of jump [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► in and reboot it before it gets to say [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► me for me mm-hmm [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► so like I have in the past like I used [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► to do this interview show every week [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► right I think it had four different [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► names over it's like three or four year [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► career because it was like a way for me [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► to give something a kickstart again and [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► to kind of push forward right and and so [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► I it's really difficult to find these [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► things but it's just something that I've [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► been trying to pay more and more [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► attention to to like take the projects [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► that work really well and add new stuff [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► to it as a way to try and keep me [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► interested in and invested yeah when we [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► related to the the other part of the [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► question about you know how do you how [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► do you not have a graveyard of on [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► unfinished things as I well we all have [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► graveyards of unfinished things like I [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► have I have a graveyard of unfinished [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► things the vast Josie's bigger than most [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► right vast vast Arlington Cemetery of [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► unfinished things it's it's enormous but [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► but one of the things I measure is [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► thinking about you know changes that I [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► made last year about being more ruthless [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► with the kind of projects that I take on [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► and what I feel really good about is in [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► the last you know since starting the [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► year of less I have gotten way better at [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► what ends up in that graveyard like I [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► feel better about those projects as [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► opposed to taking on a bunch of stuff [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► that's even if it worked out would have [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► just continued to add to my workflow so [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► I think one of the biggest things that [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► has made it made a huge difference for [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► me is is like thinking about new [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► projects they have they have to be in [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► the category of things that can be [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► completed so that they are finished at a [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► particular date [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► things that can be handed off largely to [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► some but somebody else or things that [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► add an extremely minimal amount of work [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► for a very good payoff and it's like [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► when I look at my graveyard of [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► unfinished things those projects are [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► much more in in that domain than they [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► are like oh let me start up a whole [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► brand new thing which would give me a [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► whole brand new job to do if it turns [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► out to be successful so there is a way [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► to think about the quality of the things [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► going into the graveyard not just the [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► number of tombstones that are there it's [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► like what is buried matters as opposed [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► to just the fact that a thing was buried [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► happened I think it's crazy to try to [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► avoid to avoid that like and there's [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► also there's also the side effect of [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► like you just don't know where things [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► are going to go sometimes and thinking [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► about my my current year right here of [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► redirection like I am really happy with [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► a bunch of the decisions that I have [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► made about how to how to run my business [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► this year have directly led to having a [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► bunch of free time to be able to noodle [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► around with projects that may or may not [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► turn into anything but I feel like I [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► have a better ability to dedicate a [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► bunch of time to a thing that seems [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► interesting even if I'm not exactly sure [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► where it's going to go and and to just [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► evaluate it a little bit before thinking [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► about it really seriously so it's it's [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► it's a it's a hard it's a hard thing to [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► to answer but I do think the graveyard [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► of unfinished things is is important to [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► keep growing you just need to be mindful [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► about how it is growing like what kinds [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► of things are going in there like are [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► things going in there that like let's be [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► honest you were never really going to do [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► are like oh like that that Mandarin [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► course right you got Rosetta Mandarin [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► and you were going to learn that like [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► was that really going to happen probably [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► not like that doesn't seem like a good [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► project so how much value you extracting [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► from live streaming your truck [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► because you know you talk about minimal [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► work I know you spent a significant [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► amount of time attempting to [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► troubleshoot that thing okay okay all [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► right is it I think I think this is [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► actually mean right no no you're not [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► being me you're not be mean I think this [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► is this is a great example because like [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► let me take a moment to explain [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► something that is probably not obvious [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► to the people who are watching the [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► streaming so the streaming that has been [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► happening in the last couple of weeks is [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► totally 100% an example of me changing [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► things to have more free time to be able [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► to dump a bunch of time in a very narrow [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► window into a single project which is [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► like I'm gonna figure out how to stream [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► right which turned out to be more of a [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► technical challenge tonight than I [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► expected it would be right but the whole [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► way this started is like I can actually [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► point I can actually point to the exact [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► video which is Hank green of vlog [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► brothers and VidCon and crash course and [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► a million things very productive ma'am [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► yeah he's like the Richard Branson of [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► the Internet's he just can't stop [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► creating new things Hank did have a [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► video on his on his personal Channel [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► Hanks channel where he was just going [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► through some of the statistics for the [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► YouTube channels that he runs they were [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► just like talking talking through this [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► and I thought like oh this is this is [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► exactly the kind of thing I'm really [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► interested in to see a little bit of the [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► data behind somebody else's business and [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► I went to go watch it and the thing that [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► kicked off my whole streaming was [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► watching him in the very first few [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► minutes just simply setting up what he [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► was going to do was a live stream [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► because he didn't pre record that video [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► he was just going to go through it live [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► and like take questions from people in [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► the comments and talk about some stuff [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► and as dumb as this ask is like okay so [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► I am a person who is not watch streams [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► I'm not really into streaming I feel [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► like I never really got it but I was [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► watching him do the pre setup and [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► something about that suddenly clicked [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► where I could see before the show [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► was quote ready he was obviously using [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► some kind of software to arrange all the [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► windows just the way he wanted to put a [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► little overlay on it so that it looked [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► nice and it's the simplest thing in the [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► world but it was a thing that suddenly [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► clicked in my head of like ah okay I had [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► somehow always thought that streaming [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► was simply recording the computer screen [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► as you're looking at it which always [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► seemed like a huge hassle from my [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► perspective but seeing that like oh [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► there's a tool to set this up what I [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► found about that was like I I don't know [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► when I don't know where I don't know how [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► but something about this feels like a [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► skill that I should add to my repertoire [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► of things that I can do on the Internet [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► and this is like I feel like my whole [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► career is based on trusting some [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► instincts in my brain like recognizing a [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► certain kind of interest and and this [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► was definitely one of those things of [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► realizing like I don't know where when [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► this might be useful but I think it [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► would be good to know how to stream so [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► that if I ever want to do it I don't [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► have to at that moment invest several [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► days in messing around with the software [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► and figuring out how to make everything [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► look right and getting it all done and [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► so the truck streaming project wall is [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► partly just fun and interesting to try [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► to do the truck streaming one of the [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► main purposes of that project is I want [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► to have another tool in my tool belt I [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► don't necessarily have a purpose for it [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► now but I have a gut feeling that maybe [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► at some point I will want to know how to [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► do this and and be able to do it [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► immediately and I'm like I'm investing [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► that time now this is so funny to me why [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► because what you had watching Hank is [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► what I have watching you so when I saw [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► you doing it I'm realized like you were [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► talking about the tools that you were [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► using mm-hmm [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► I then realized oh this isn't what I [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► thought it was right I could do that [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► look that's how [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► Arius I cut that's so funny cuz like I [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► it's been in my head I can't get out of [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► my head like I keep I keep looking at [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► these like streaming boxes and stuff [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► and I just want to show everybody how I [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► play Zelda right but this is this is a [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► perfect example of you know last year [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► gray wouldn't really have had the time [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► to guilt free just do this at like and I [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► know I'm always mentioning side projects [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► like there's a bunch of stuff that [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► people just don't see like this is two [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► of the things I'm working on which like [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► people just don't see but this is an [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► example of a thing that people can see [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► but I just don't think it's I think a [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► lot of people watching it aren't aware [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► of like what is what is it that I'm [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► doing here and and this is what I'm [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► doing I'm intentionally trying to add a [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► skill to the list of things that I can [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► do on the Internet okay and as as a [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► self-employed person who like cobbles [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► together a bunch of skills to to make it [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► work together in a productive way like [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► this just seems to me like a skill that [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► I should definitely have ready to go [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► even if I'm not using it intensely at [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► any particular moment I think anybody [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► that is self employed should or does [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► have this about them especially if you [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► work in a creative space because at any [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► point the thing that you do could go [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► away yeah and having a vast skill set [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► which you can apply to other things is [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► very important it is the reason that I [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► started making YouTube videos yeah but [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► yeah that's it that's exactly that's a [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► great comparison right as you just you [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► want to be aware of other things and the [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► other thing as well as like aside from [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► just trying to figure out technically [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► how to do a thing there was a real part [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► of my brain which just felt like I don't [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► understand streaming on the Internet as [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► in I don't really understand why people [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► watch streams I don't understand really [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► what's going on on the streams it's just [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► is it was just outside of my domain of [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► expertise but I also think like this [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► this is an important meta skill to [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► cultivate is [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► curiosity over dismissal right it's it's [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► really easy to dismiss things as like oh [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► whatever those people are doing like [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► they're watching people play video games [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► live like isn't that dumb alright [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► because like is it dumb or do you just [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► not understand what they're doing and [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► and I feel like that was also part of [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► this processes like I want to have an [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► intuitive understanding of what this is [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► and I think I have a much better [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► understanding of it now than I did [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► before I started it's very difficult to [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► articulate I feel in this in the same [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► way that like I've always said like with [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► teacher training there's just so much [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► stuff you just have to do in a classroom [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► like the no amount of learning ahead of [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► time will actually prepare you for it [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► like you just have to be in charge of a [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► bunch of kids before you really get what [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► teachers mean when they say like [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► consistency is really important it's [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► like you but you don't understand until [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► you're there and I feel like there was [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► something similar about that with the [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► streaming like I don't feel like I get [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► it 100% yet but I feel like um 75% of [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► the way there but it's very difficult to [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► articulate because it's just a thing [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► that you have to do and and that is [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► what's going on in in this side project [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► of mine is skill acquisition and feeding [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► curiosity about new things that are [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► coming along instead of just ignoring [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► them potentially to the detriment of my [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► business in the future [TS]

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00:37:57 ◼   ► this show the people have spoken gray I [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► don't think it's legitimate Mike because [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► you riled them up it doesn't matter they [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► they needed to know first and once I let [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► them know they felt the need to request [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► in droves in waves of cortex listeners [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► want to know why you left the iPhone se [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► and went back to the iPhone 7 I just [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► want to again get it on record here that [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► I feel like you fomented a mob right [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► that's that's what you did last time I [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► think that it's really unfair for you to [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► refer to our listeners that way to turn [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► this around all I'm doing I'm just [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► trying to provide them with some [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► information to let them choose you know [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► we didn't hear from anyone that [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► specifically said they didn't want to [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► hear about this yeah yeah yeah that's [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► cuz that's who that's who you hear tons [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► from is the people who don't want to [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► hear about a thing if they really don't [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► want to know tell you you know that's [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► enough they don't you never you never [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► get the people who say no if I feel like [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► the silent majority they're not being [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► represented here but I know Mike I feel [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► like um I feel so hesitant to tell the [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► story because I feel like it's a tale of [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► woe right a tale of woe and there have [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► been many tales of woe about Apple stuff [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► that is probably why I just I sort of [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► haven't wanted to talk about it so I [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► don't I don't know where to begin how [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► long ago did you move away from the [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► iPhone se uh okay so it was it was [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► actually like days before you spotted me [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► using the iPhone 7 cult you know okay if [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► you want to use the word caught if you [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► want to frame this in a particular way [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► you go right ahead [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► well all I remember is the look on your [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► face when I asked you what that was [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► and you just looked at me and you said [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► you didn't want to talk about it in your [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► pocket no no don't you don't you jealous [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► I'm all teary that is and then we didn't [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► see you again for the rest of the [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► weekend no just to be clear [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► Mike is full of lies and nothing [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► happened at the Google conference there [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► what actually happened is I was just [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► using it in front of him [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► and he asked me about it I was like I [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► don't want to get into it now and then [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► whatever this is [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► six months later I still have to get [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► into it I just want to let our listeners [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► know that this has been something that I [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► have been trying to get great to talk [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► about for six months now every now and [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► then it's just sat in our show document [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► and I move it in and then gray adds a [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► little line that says I'm not ready to [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► talk about this yet but clearly some [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► timers heal all wounds well no I mean [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► mostly it's just that like we're getting [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► we're getting up to new iPhone season so [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► if we don't talk about it like we'll [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► have wasted a topic right that's that's [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► what's that's what's happened also [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► there'll be like a confusion gap when [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► you talk about moving from one phone to [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► the other yeah yeah there'll be a [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► confusion gap okay so I guess I guess [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► the place to start is like what did i do [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► what did I do [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► what was my initial reasoning here right [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► is this is partly connected to what I [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► was thinking about four-year of [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► redirection [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► which now I can't even remember what the [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► hell the original idea what I was gonna [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► call it was your new I think maybe we [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► thought what was seems like you yeah [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► which was get the wrong name in every [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► sense yeah the exact opposite of what I [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► was actually intending to do you may [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► also call a year of more yeah yeah [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► exactly you're more by which I will [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► actually be doing less I mean more or [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► less right yeah in the year of less what [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► did I do more I did more more than I've [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► ever done like but you have to [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► understand the way I mean these words [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► people uh but so anyway looking forward [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► to what I was thinking about doing [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► towards the end of 2016 and throughout [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► 2017 one of the things that was on my [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► list was more traveling in a bunch of [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► different ways more more traveling both [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► for personal reasons and more traveling [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► for business [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► reasons and that is definitely something [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► that has happened as I anticipated like [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► I've been on way more flights in the [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► last six to eight months then I've been [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► on in the past many years in the last [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► six months maybe in the last year I have [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► seen you more overseas than in London I [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► said yeah you know what I think you're [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► right yeah I think I think you are [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► totally right about that yeah I do not [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► think that is an exaggeration um so yeah [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► I don't always mention it on on podcast [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► buts like I've done more traveling than [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► I thought I make reference to and I was [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► thinking about this and part of my like [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► one of the big things that's frustrating [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► about traveling for me is a kind of [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► range anxiety about the batteries in the [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► devices that I use I feel like so much [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► of my life is just spent around managing [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► batteries yeah and it's getting like it [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► is really getting worse like I feel like [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► I've crossed some kind of threshold [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► where there's just so many batteries to [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► worry about it drives me crazy it is by [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► far and away one of my biggest [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► complaints about technology in the [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► modern world yeah is battery management [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► and like let like laying out all my gear [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► and obsessively trying to figure out [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► what's the minimum number of wires that [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► I can take that will cover all of these [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► devices and it's it's it's frustrating [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► and it's it's yeah it's annoying and in [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► particular the device that you do not [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► want to die on you while you're [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► traveling is the phone what this does [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► the most important thing that you want [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► to keep alive and basically what I was [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► thinking of is like I wanted to try the [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► iPhone 7 with the battery pack because [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► since ever since the the iPhone the the [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► first time was the 6 of the 6s I don't [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► remember where they came out with the [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► battery pack which I think you actually [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► showed me first on this podcast someone [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► I think that was you yeah you hadn't [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► seen it yeah yeah that's what it was I [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► hadn't seen it and I was expecting [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► abject horror from [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► you but you have but you were very [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► interested in it yeah I was very [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► interested in it and I was super annoyed [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► they didn't make it for the the six plus [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► or the 6s plus whatever it was at the [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► time so ever since that came out when my [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► wife and I go traveling she uses her [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► phone with the battery pack and I've [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► always been hugely impressed by how long [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► her phone lasts even when she's doing [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► some intensive pokey hunting as we're [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► traveling around the world right it's [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► like look like you got to catch them all [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► Mike that was also mindful I think so I [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► was like I was always very interested in [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► that and I feel like I have terrible [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► luck with iPhone batteries like my [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► iPhone it just it feels like it never [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► lasts as long as it should I feel like I [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► barely use my phone and it makes it [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► through half the day and if I'm [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► traveling and I've mentioned this to you [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► in a numerous times like if I'm going to [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► Amsterdam right or if I'm flying I swear [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► to god it's like the battery just drops [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► like a rock I feel like I'm not touching [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► you like I put you in low-power mode [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► straight away I've just left you in my [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► pocket like I'm specifically not [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► touching you phone and it's like it just [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► just drops the battery just dropped so [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► fast it's a huge frustration I have a [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► suspicion that it's related to low [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► signal but that's what the phone that's [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► what's causing the problem is there's [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► lots of situation with the signal is low [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► in the battery just drops yeah that that [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► is like the most surefire way to destroy [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► a phone battery is when it's searching [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► for a network yeah like I'm sitting on a [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► train and I can feel it warm in my [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► pocket and it's like what are you doing [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► phone is like oh you're you're switching [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► cell carriers every every five minutes [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► yep [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► you know it's like just even around [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► London like even just today I had a like [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► a very normal morning where I barely [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► used the phone and I got home at noon [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► and the battery was down to 50% as like [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► oh right but I spent some time in some [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► low signal areas like it's just an [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► endless frustration and it's [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► particularly bad on traveling so I [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► thought you know what I'm gonna do I'm [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► gonna try to use the iPhone 7 with the [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► battery pack because if I'm if I'm [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► traveling a bunch this is really [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► important to me to not lose the battery [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► this doesn't feel like enough well let [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► me just like the thing I've been [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► interested to see is like because I've [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► been going to some conferences I'm aware [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► of like how much more the phone really [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► matters a conference [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► in ways that I wouldn't have expected [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► like it's interesting just to go now [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► you're totally right is is this enough [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► there's a few other things that have [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► happened one of the primary things [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► that's happened which I really don't [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► want to get into it like I feel like [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► there's so many stories here but like I [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► just don't want to get into all of them [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► so we're going to try to move past some [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► things but one of them is one of the big [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► reasons why I moved down to the iPhone [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► se was also if you remember I had taken [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► up running around that time and running [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► with a plus-size phone is like a total [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► deal-breaker it's a it's a real pain in [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► the butt to have a plus-size phone can [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► literally be a pain in the butt it can [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► literally be a pain like I'm on my [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► running gear the only pocket like the [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► leasts are the least uncomfortable [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► pocket is like a pocket on the back and [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► then it is literally a pain in the butt [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► you can't fit with us nowhere to live no [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► there's no way to live so I switched out [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► to BSE is like a huge advantage while [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► running like enormous advantage while [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► running now and I was running three [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► times a week up again like story I don't [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► want to get into I eventually decided [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► like I had give running enough of the [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► try and realized I hate you running I [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► thought this is not for me this is no [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► story you need to explain to me there is [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► of all physical exertion running is my [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► least favorite like I hate running up a [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► passion there is I don't understand how [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► anybody enjoys it my brother just ran [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► the London Marathon oh I enjoyed it yeah [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► and I don't understand how that is a [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► thing that is possible for a human to to [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► experience I just can't I just called [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► out yeah so it's like I wanted to give [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► it a fair try I felt like I gave it a [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► fair try and could reasonably come to [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► the conclusion that like this is not for [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► me I don't like so happy cuz I really [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► was annoyed that you were running I [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► never mentioned it but I hate it why did [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► you hate it I just felt like of everyone [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► that I know you would be the person that [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► would also not like running well guess [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► what [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► you're right I'm so happy to hear this [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► so I switch running for the exercise I [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► vastly prefer which is cycling and so [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► it's like okay [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► in cycling like you're on a bike it's a [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► whole different equipment set up right [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► you have you like baskets to hold things [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► there's like you're bringing equipment [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► with you you have them like it's just a [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► totally different set up and so that [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► like cycling well you know I can't win [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► every time with you Mike but so that was [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► the case we're like the SE it didn't [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► matter so much I thought like I'm gonna [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► give I'm gonna give the seven to try and [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► what I was what I wanted to also try was [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► if I just use this with the battery pack [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► all the time right not just for [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► traveling if I just use it with the [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► battery pack can I get used to the [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► physical size that I don't like does the [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► battery pack make it big enough in my [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► hands that it's not uncomfortable to use [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► and so like that that's what I wanted [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► that's what I wanted to try I still feel [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► like there is an important part of this [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► though oh oh yeah there is sorry there [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► is there is one more thing okay there is [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► one more thing which I will straight up [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► acknowledge is a kind of personality [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► flaw with me but is the thing like I [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► recognize about myself and the thing [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► that I recognize is if I'm using [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► something and I feel like that thing has [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► no future I have a very hard time [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► continuing to use it okay and I became [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► more and more convinced that I was just [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► using a dead phone what about it being [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► old it was that - that play into it you [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► were using an old product the oldest [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► like I know you will think that that is [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► the the factor but that is very minor [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► factor it's it's much more that I just [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► kept being convinced like I don't think [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► Apple is ever going to make a phone in [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► this size again okay [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► didn't want to get too used to again [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► yeah that was kind of it like I I loved [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► that phone but it was it just kept [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► niggling in the back of my mind that [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► it's like well like this phone is [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► already dead right in my hands like I'm [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► just I'm like I'm like a sucker holding [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► on to a bygone era [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► and like this is this is a part of my [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► personality which again like sometimes [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► I'll recognize that it can be a flaw and [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► sometimes it is amazing but it's like I [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► just I cannot look backward like I have [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► a really hard time with that and even if [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► something in the present feels like in [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► the future it will be backward I'm like [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► now this I can't I can't deal with this [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► cuz you know the whole time I'm sitting [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► here thinking like there is a myriad of [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► battery cases that would fit the iPhone [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► se [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► okay so slight other thing I had already [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► tried doing a whole bunch of battery [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► cases with the SE and all of them had [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► various frustrations and a long story [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► short none of them worked as well as the [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► battery case on the seven not not even [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► close so I use battery cases I had used [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► battery case on the SE while traveling [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► and they were better than nothing [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► but so the conclusion of this is like [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► okay so I tried these various reasons I [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► got the seven I got the battery case and [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► my experience of it was this battery [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► case is glorious because it finally [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► takes the phone into like what that what [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► the Apple watch is where it's like I [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► don't ever have to really think about [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► this as long as I plug it in for some [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► amount of time once in the day I never [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► have to think about what the battery is [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► on this phone and over time that case [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► for me like now I am used to it the way [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► it looks when I see it because initially [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► it was like one of the ugliest things [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► I've ever seen Apple make because it's [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► like this hump on the back of the phone [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► mm-hmm I have also since held one mmm [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► and it is really a tale of function over [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► form it is stupid to have this just like [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► a hump on the back of the phone for many [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► reasons I think it looks really weird [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► and like you put it down on the table [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► and you press something in on the phone [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► that it flips over when you're holding [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► it in your hand like you rest your hand [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► kind of around the bump and it actually [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► is really nice to hold and it doesn't [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► feel like how a lot of these battery [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► cases feel where you feel like you've [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► doubled the thickness of your phone yeah [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► yeah that's the other problem is like [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► apples using a lot of their own [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► integration [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► and they're able to pull a bunch of [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► tricks part of which is that they're [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► using the female lightning connector on [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► the bottom which is a huge win again [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► because if talking about battery [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► management is like the number of cable [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► if I can make the number of cables less [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► this is a win it's like if I can avoid a [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► microUSB that's fantastic [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► like I don't want to have to have one of [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► these yeah that sucks it's a real [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► annoyance but I have I have just nothing [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► but tremendous praise for the battery [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► case for the seven and it to me it feels [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► like what the battery of a phone should [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► be which is I can even with reasonably [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► heavy use on a travel day expect that [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► this phone will make it till the end of [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► the day without being plugged in which I [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► just I don't feel like that's a lot to [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► ask but I know that with modern phone [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► design it apparently is yeah they would [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► do it if they could yeah everyone wants [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► this everybody knows this like but there [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► they just whatever all funds seem to not [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► really be able to provide it [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► yeah now the other thing which again [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► this is for my personality in particular [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► is I I might over value wins that take [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► something off my mental plate and so [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► feeling like I never have to think about [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► the battery of this phone is such an [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► outsized win in my mind it's hard to [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► explain it's the same way like with you [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► know with the Apple watch it's like the [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► fact that I never have to think about [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► this that sometimes I have I have worn a [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► watch for two days in a row without even [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► charging it it's like it's such a win [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► that I don't have to think about it I [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► love that and especially with battery [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► management I totally love it so on a [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► number of different travelling occasions [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► all of which happened in very rapid [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► succession after you saw me and Ireland [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► with seven I was using the 7 I was like [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► this battery case is amazing this this [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► is fantastic this is this is really [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► great but here's the thing like I tried [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► so hard I tried so hard to like the size [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► of the 7 with the battery case making it [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► a little bigger [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► but I just couldn't I just couldn't [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► I find that sighs for me it is the [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► physically wrong size it's uncomfortable [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► to use over a long period of time it's [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► not small enough to use one-handed it's [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► too small to use two-handed it doesn't [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► turn sideways so that I can use it two [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► handed oh my god just slowly slowly [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► drove me crazy he doing what I think [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► you're doing right now and I I had to [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► let it go and so you don't you don't [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► know what I'm doing but I'm using this [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► seven plus now yes because that was the [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► only place - gasps I know you get it I [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► know you're happy about you Zack to me [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► this is I didn't expect it to go this [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► way no one do you have one to talk to me [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► about it you know it's really funny Mike [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► I have used the seven plus in front of [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► you and you've never noticed because [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► it's the correct natural human being [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► phone it's like I have I have hidden [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► nothing from you I just there was a [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► couple of times when I was using this [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► the seven in front of you and you just [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► you just didn't pick up on it so I just [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► I thought that was funny but but yeah [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► it's like I tried like I have never [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► tried as hard as I tried to really like [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► the seven with the battery case like I [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► just I desperately wanted to really like [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► it but I just I just couldn't get over [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► the physical uncomfortableness of that [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► size for me and that but this is why [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► like I feel like this is this this tale [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► of woe right of like where am I going in [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► this product line they're their main [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► product line it's like physically [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► uncomfortable for me like I just don't [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► like it [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► they have two other sizes with both of [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► which I do like like I still really like [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► the small size right I still really like [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► the plus but but each of these have [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► other disadvantages that their main line [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► of phone doesn't have so which is it's [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► just frustrating I feel like I don't [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► have a really good home in this line [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► because I'm using I'm using the seven [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► plus but that actually doesn't get very [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► much better battery life than the S II [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► did like if you look on the battery life [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► tests there are many times at the S II [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► actually outperforms a seven plus [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► because even though the battery is way [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► bigger the screen is also way bigger [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► right which drain out the battery it's [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► and it's like I'm back in the same [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► position of when I'm traveling having to [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► do the mental management of battery on [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► this phone and it's just frustrating [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► like I was on a trip recently and I was [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► just aware like I was out I was taking a [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► walk like in a city and I was having a [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► really nice time but I was also we're [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► like oh my phone is down at 5% on low [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► battery mode I've thrown it into [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► airplane mode and I need to make sure [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► that I have enough battery to get me [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► back when I'm done with walking around [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► right and it's like I hate that I hate [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► having to pay attention to it I hate the [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► way that Apple does the low-power mode [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► where you have to manually turn it on so [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► if you miss it like you can burn through [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► the last bit of your battery like I just [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► I find it very very frustrating it's [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► like I wish I wish they would make a [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► battery case with a bigger phone but [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► they don't and yeah [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► so that's that's why I mic I feel like [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► it's a big tale of woe is connected to [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► everything in my life and that's and [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► that's where we are but I know that at [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► least you're going to be happy that I'm [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► using the 7 plus there is a lesson to be [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► learned here gray what is that lesson [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► like that when Mike was right he remains [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► that way oh yeah yeah is that the lesson [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► to be learned here yep I don't know if [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► that's a lesson like I think it is hmm I [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► just you know I just like you know I'm [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► sure the listeners can hear my voice [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► like I'm I'm genuinely frustrated and [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► this is all the other like big thing [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► this is connected to which I feel like I [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► barely even want to mention but is these [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► rumors that like the next the next [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► iPhone they're their flagship phone is [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► going to be the same size as the current [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► 7 and maybe there's another generation [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► of like 7s that symbolize like I just I [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► just feel frustrated with maybe the way [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► that this is going to go like I'm [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► worried about what their next phone is [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► going to be if it's the same size as the [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► 7 so that's that's also why I feel like [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► I might even here just have some kind of [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► stay of execution with the plus size [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► phone I don't know I really I struggle [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► to understand why you find that 7 size [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► so uncomfortable though like I just [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► think it's it's it's not worth it I just [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► figure you may as well go to the top [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► right you know because I just think it [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► makes [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► the most sense to go with the plus foam [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► over the regular size one I just think [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► that you get a lot everything that you [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► get you get more of the kind of just [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► think that it makes to me just makes so [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► much more sense but like you seem [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► much more sense but like you seem [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► to have this like real anti like [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► visceral anti reaction to the size of [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► that phone in in a way that I don't [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► think I fully understand I mean one of [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► the places I feel at the most intensely [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► is with the keyboard like I'm really [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► just aware the keyboard when I'm typing [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► it's just a little too big to [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► comfortably type with one hand right and [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► then when I bring my other hand over to [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► it's now too small [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► well I mean you know the solace that you [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► may get from this new phone is [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► apparently the screen will be a similar [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► size to the plus just in a smaller body [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► so stuff like that it might not feel too [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► bad you'll have more screen real estate [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► to actually use both hands with I feel [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► like I need to see a 7 plus overlaid on [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► a 7 to understand the relative size of [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► these things because I'm like I've been [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► reading all of the articles about like [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► what what the new size might be industry [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► like isn't it just a taller screen it's [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► not actually a whole lot wider and say [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► well that's that's not that doesn't help [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► anything you can actually get this [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► experience now you can go to a phone [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► store and try the Galaxy S a similar [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► dimensions hmm I might actually do that [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► just just to let my mind rest a little [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► bit about this like there's that the two [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► sizes they're both like smaller than the [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► iPhones but they have bigger screens and [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► both of them hmm I might literally do [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► that this whole shoes whole bunch of [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► like galaxies um [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► pop-up stores all around London they're [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► ever lettest yeah they're everyone they [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► are everywhere to get you to go in and [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► try out the phone like you can't you [TS]

01:01:31 ◼   ► can't walk around without them I get [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► scared every time I leave the house now [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► I'm gonna return home with one it's a [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► real fear that I have whenever I go into [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► central London I'm I do my very best to [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► avoid the coffin warehouse I just can't [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► go near it [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► because I see it I get sucked in the [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► only time I went to look at one and have [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► held one was when they weren't for sale [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► but they had them in the stores and well [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► I can't buy one right now so this is [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► safe I love that design man yeah no it [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► looks good it looks good but like that I [TS]

01:02:07 ◼   ► just I'm just concerned I'm concerned [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► about where this is going in the future [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► and edges [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► because I feel like I'm set I'm [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► sensitive to that size I'm like extra [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► worried I'm extra worried that that I've [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► just again like bought myself to stay of [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► execution I hope you're happy now [TS]

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01:03:27 ◼   ► you've been on this like vision quest of [TS]

01:03:29 ◼   ► device to device to device a trail of [TS]

01:03:32 ◼   ► sadness uh-huh there is like you know we [TS]

01:03:35 ◼   ► were talking earlier about this [TS]

01:03:37 ◼   ► graveyard of ideas there must be some [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► graveyard of iPhones somewhere like what [TS]

01:03:43 ◼   ► what even happened to all these funds [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► they like in in use in various ways [TS]

01:03:49 ◼   ► playing different sound effects remember [TS]

01:03:51 ◼   ► at your house or something like well [TS]

01:03:53 ◼   ► that's ridiculous Mike oh right yeah yep [TS]

01:03:55 ◼   ► yep who would have who would have use [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► for three phones no nobody nobody would [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► have use for three phones now for on the [TS]

01:04:01 ◼   ► other hand the iPhone the iPhone 7 went [TS]

01:04:05 ◼   ► on to someone who could use it so that [TS]

01:04:07 ◼   ► is that is gone but no the SE the multi [TS]

01:04:16 ◼   ► phone lifestyle Bessie has ended up [TS]

01:04:20 ◼   ► filling a very interesting role [TS]

01:04:23 ◼   ► in my life now several shows ago people [TS]

01:04:29 ◼   ► were asking why the hell don't you just [TS]

01:04:31 ◼   ► use two phones you idiot [TS]

01:04:32 ◼   ► alright that's like if you have the if [TS]

01:04:34 ◼   ► there's things you like about one and [TS]

01:04:35 ◼   ► don't like by the other like just used [TS]

01:04:37 ◼   ► to and my frustration is there's no way [TS]

01:04:41 ◼   ► software wise to use two phones if [TS]

01:04:45 ◼   ► you're all in on the Apple ecosystem [TS]

01:04:47 ◼   ► health data is locked to a single phone [TS]

01:04:50 ◼   ► and Apple watches are locked to a single [TS]

01:04:54 ◼   ► phone so if you want to try to use two [TS]

01:04:56 ◼   ► phones and you're also tracking your [TS]

01:04:58 ◼   ► health and use an Apple watch it's just [TS]

01:05:00 ◼   ► a it's just a total non-starter because [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► data and notifications are not going to [TS]

01:05:05 ◼   ► seamlessly move back and forth between [TS]

01:05:08 ◼   ► the two of them but I found an [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► interesting an interesting sort of case [TS]

01:05:15 ◼   ► that has worked out quite nicely because [TS]

01:05:19 ◼   ► while I've been using the the plus and I [TS]

01:05:22 ◼   ► do like a lot of the advantages of the [TS]

01:05:24 ◼   ► plus like the bigger screen is nice [TS]

01:05:25 ◼   ► particularly for reading ebooks like it [TS]

01:05:27 ◼   ► is nice to have that out and about but [TS]

01:05:31 ◼   ► the place I didn't like the Plus very [TS]

01:05:33 ◼   ► much is in the house because if I have a [TS]

01:05:36 ◼   ► phone in my pocket like it's still a big [TS]

01:05:37 ◼   ► phone right whenever you sit down I'm [TS]

01:05:39 ◼   ► always really aware of it physically [TS]

01:05:41 ◼   ► like in my pocket and if I would take it [TS]

01:05:43 ◼   ► out I would sort of lose it around the [TS]

01:05:45 ◼   ► house because I didn't remember where I [TS]

01:05:46 ◼   ► was putting it down and so I don't have [TS]

01:05:51 ◼   ► a day phone and a night phone but I have [TS]

01:05:54 ◼   ► ended up with a house phone and an [TS]

01:05:57 ◼   ► outdoor phone because here's the thing [TS]

01:06:00 ◼   ► when I'm in the house the seven-plus [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► sits on a little charger and all of the [TS]

01:06:08 ◼   ► notifications that I would get from the [TS]

01:06:10 ◼   ► seven-plus through my Apple watch all of [TS]

01:06:12 ◼   ► that stuff still works like all of the [TS]

01:06:14 ◼   ► fussy way that I have set up the phone [TS]

01:06:16 ◼   ► to notify me when I want with particular [TS]